Draft your nominee for president

In its first few hours of business to select a nominee through an online primary, Americans Elect’s 360,000 delegates have drafted 52 candidates for president. You’ll recognize a few of the names: Michael Bloomberg, Jon Huntsman, Buddy Roemer, Warren Buffett, Rahm Emanuel and Condoleezza Rice.

I wrote about Americans Elect, a website that gives any registered voter to nominate his or her choice for U.S. president, in December. Thursday, the organization unveiled its candidates page. You can see it for yourself here.

Nominees must have a similar level of experience as past U.S. presidents and earn the support of 1,000 delegates from 10 different states. In the spring, the delegates will begin three rounds of online voting to narrow the field to six candidates. One will be selected in June as the Americans Elect nominee and will appear on the ballot in November.

The nominee must pick a running mate from the opposite party. A Rahm Emanuel and Condoleezza Rice match-up might be interesting, but who would be the presidential nominee and who would be the running mate?